spoke of Sidney and Dyer as "the two very diamonds of Her Majesty's Court for many special and rare qualities." When Sidney died, in 1586, he left by will his books to be divided between his friends Edward Dyer and Fulke Greville. Edward Dyer was one of an embassy to Denmark in the year 1589, three years after Sidney's death; and in that year George Puttenham published an "Art of English Poesy," in which Dyer is praised as "for elegy most sweet, solemn and of high conceit." Mr. Edward Dyer was not a knight in his friend Sidney's life-time. He was not knighted until the year 1596, when he was also made Chancellor of the Garter. He died unmarried in 1607, and was buried in the chancel of St. Saviour's, Southwark. Sir Edward Dyer's poems were not collected. He possessed himself, as courtier he would never fawn or cringe, and, being unmarried, he was addressed, in 1603, by John Davies of Hereford, as "Virgin knight, that dost thyself obscure He described his own ideal of life in the most famous of his pieces, which begins-— Dyer and Sidney joined their wits in verse when Sidney replied to Dyer's poem of a satyr who, after Prometheus brought fire from heaven, kissed the new gift for its beauty, and burnt his lips as the fond lover burns his heart. Sidney's reply scouted a causeless fear- "Better like I thy Satyr, dearest Dyer, Who burnt his lips to kiss fair shining fire." Fulke Fulke Greville was born in the year of the birth of his friend Philip Sidney-1554-at Beauchamp Court, in Warwickshire. His mother was the daughter of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, his father a rich landowner, kindly and hospitable, who was member for his county in 1586 and 1588, lived into the reign of James I., and was knighted in 1605, the year before his death. In November, 1564, Sidney and Greville entered Shrewsbury school on the same day, Greville's name being written immediately after that of Sidney. Each of the two boys was ten years old, and the school itself was only one year older. The close friendship thus begun in early boyhood, and continued during twenty-two years until Sidney's death, still dwelt in the heart of Fulke Greville through the forty-two years of his life that followed. Time had not dulled the old affection, and the veteran statesman left directions that he should be described upon his tomb as "Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, Councillor to King James, Friend to Sir Philip Sidney." In his record of his friend's life Fulke Greville said, of Sidney's youth, "I will report no other wonder but this, that though I lived with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man." About the time when Sidney went to Christ Church, Oxford, Fulke Greville, after four years at Shrewsbury, entered as a fellow-commoner at Jesus College, Cambridge, matriculating on the twentieth of May, 1568. But the friendship was continued by home intercourse. Sir Henry Sidney gave Greville, in 1577, a small office at Ludlow, which he held for about a year, then resigned it, having obtained the reversion of two offices of far more value in the same Court of the Marches of the Principality of Wales. Then Greville came to Court, where, says Fuller, he came backed with a full and fair estate; and Queen Elizabeth loved such substantial courtiers as could plentifully subsist of themselves. Fulke Greville earned, however, by his noble qualities a high place in her favour. In February, 1577, Fulke Greville went with Philip Sidney to Heidelberg, with the queen's condolence to John Casimir and his brother on the death of their father, the Elector Palatine. In 1578 Greville was on his way to the wars in the Netherlands, when his friend Edward Dyer was sent by Elizabeth to call him back; but a few months later he offended the queen by slipping off to Flanders in company with Walsingham, who had then been sent. In 1579 Greville went to Germany with Sidney's old friend Hubert Languet. Fulke Greville shared with Sidney the sports of the tournament at Whitehall in May, 1581, for the entertainment of French envoys; and he was with Sidney among those who accompanied the Duke of Anjou to Antwerp in February, 1582. In 1583-the year of Philip Sidney's marriage to Fanny Walsingham-Greville entered into one of the offices of which he had obtained the reversion, that of Clerk of the Signet to the Council of Wales, which added two thousand a year to his income, a sum worth about five times as much in present buying power. Fulke Greville, like Edward Dyer, remained to the last unmarried. In 1583, also, Greville shared the interest of Philip Sidney in Giordano Bruno, who was of their own age or but little older, and lived to be burnt as a heretic at Rome in February, 1600. Giordano Bruno-born at Nola, in the kingdom of Naples-had quitted the Dominican Order for doubt of doctrine, as of Transubstantiation and Immaculate Conception. He went in 1577 to Geneva, where, after two years' stay, his spiritual freedom of inquiry displeased also the followers of Calvin. Then he went to Paris and taught logic till trouble came of his want of servile faith in all that was said in the schools to rest on the authority of Aristotle. This caused him to try London, in 1583. In London he lived two years in the house of Michel de Castelnau, Ambassador from France to Queen Elizabeth. So he became known at Court, where his best friends were Fulke Greville and Philip Sidney. Bruno advanced beyond the orthodoxy of all sects and creeds-saw one divine thought in the universe that made God manifest, and that, like God, was infinite. He looked into the material heaven with the eyes of Copernicus, who had died in 1543, and whose teaching was still held to be unorthodox in science. But his imagination shaped also a spiritual heaven, of which he could speak freely in high converse with men like Fulke Greville and Sir Philip Sidney. Giordano Bruno's Spaccio della Bestia trionfante-written at this time in London and dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney--was first published at Paris in 1584, and of that edition there were only twenty copies printed. In 1585 Fulke Greville joined with Sidney in the intention to sail with Drake, and went with Sidney for that purpose to Plymouth, whence the queen recalled them both. Greville desired also to go with Sidney to the Netherlands in 1586, but could not obtain the queen's permission; and he heard in England of the death of the friend upon whom he wrote an elegy-published in 1593 in the collection of poems called "The Phoenix Nest "—with passion of lament, "Enraged I write I know not what: dead, quick, I know not how' "Hard hearted minds relent, and Rigour's tears abound, And Envy strangely rues his end in whom no fault she found; Fulke Greville was a friend also to Francis Bacon, whom, in 1594, he sought to help in his unsuccessful suit for the office of Solicitor-General. Bacon recorded of Greville afterwards, in his "Apophthegms, new and old," that he "had much and private access to Queen Elizabeth, which he used honourably, and did many men good: yet he would say merrily of himself that he was like Robin Goodfellow : for when the maids spilt the milk pans or kept any racket, they would lay it upon Robin: so what tales the ladies about the Queen told her, or other bad offices that they did, they would put it upon him." Greville sat in Parliament for Warwickshire in 1592-3, 1597, and 1601. In October, 1597, he was knighted. In 1599 or 1600 he was appointed for life Treasurer of Marine Causes. There were three or four of Fulke Greville's early poems printed in "England's Helicon " in 1600, and one in the same year in Bodenham's " Belvedere," which may be added to his poem on the death of Sidney in "The Phoenix Nest." Nothing else was printed in Elizabeth's reign; and although much of his "Coelica," and other poems of his, must have been written early in life, the verse of mature years has been so joined to the revised verse of his youth that we must wait to speak of his poems as a whole when studying the literature of the reign of James I. Of the writers named by William Webbe in his "Discourse of Poetrie," there remain four yet to be accounted for-Edward Knight, Abraham Fraunce, John Grange, and Anthony Munday. Little is known of Edward Knight, whose initials, "E. K., |